Κατεύθυνση Επιδημιολογία-Μεθοδολογία έρευνας στις βιοϊατρικές επιστήμες, την κλινική πράξη και τη δημόσια υγεία
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2021-02-25

2021

Chelioti Mariora

Γκίκας Μαγιορκίνης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Δημήτρης Παρασκευής, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ελένη Ριζά, Μέλος ΕΔΙΠ, Ιατρική Σχολή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Συγκριτική επιδημιολογία Covid-19 σε Ευρωπαϊκές χώρες

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Comparative epidemiology of Covid-19 in European countries

Background: In December 2019, an unknown etiology outbreak of pneumonia, occurred in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. A month later, the World Health Organization, named the new disease COVID-19 and reported 45,171 new cases and 1,115 deaths associated with it. The infection by this new strain was declared a state of emergency for public health.
Material and Methods: The data collected cover the period 01 March to 30 April 2020. For the needs of the research, 10 European countries were selected for which the daily cases and deaths from COVID-19 were recorded. In addition, the dates that each country had for the first time had more than ten confirmed cases, the dates of the first death, and the dates that each country took the following measures to address the spread: a) school closures, b) ban on rallies and c) general lockdown.
Results: The days from the first death that each country needed to take preventive measures were found to be positively related to the total number of cases and the total number of deaths to a statistically significant degree. More specifically, to increase the "Lockdown" measure by one day, we expect about 15.5 more deaths per million population (r: 0.8, p-value: 0.009). In contrast, there was no correlation between the days of taking each measure from the tenth case, with the total number of deaths / cases.
Conclusions: In this comparative study, the days of taking each measure from the first death appear to be positively related to the total number of deaths and the total number of cases. However, due to the co-authorship between prevention measures, more studies are needed to investigate the causal relationship between prevention measures and total deaths.

Health Sciences

Virology, Covid-19, Epidemiology, SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2, Diagnosis, Prevention

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